Vitamin Party Starting Roster 2005-2010
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Conor
Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Mill Valley, CA. |
Matty
Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Centerville, NY.
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Sean
Drums, Vocals
East Rochester, NY. represent.
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Vinnie
Bass, Guitar, Vocals
East Rochester, NY. |
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A Blurb About Us:
On July 4, 2009 Vitamin Party was featured on KALX 90.7 Berkeley's "KALX Live!" where they gave an interview and played a 30 minute set. Simultaneously, the entire nation set off fireworks and celebrated. Coincidence?!
Song "Last Known Photograph" was voted #3 in the PaunkRadioCast Top 40 by listeners in May 2010.
"Back on Task" CD made Ray Lujan's TOP TEN (Maximum Rock-n-Roll. March 2009)
Deli Magazine's San Francisco BAND OF THE MONTH (January 2009)
No. They do not party with vitamins. It's just the name of the band, so don't ask. They DO play high-energy, straightforward indie-punk to the San Francisco bay area and beyond.
Vitamin Party formed in 2005 in the living room of Sean and Matty's apartment in Oakland, CA. Afraid that no good band could remain in a living room, they soon migrated to Sean's bedroom, pushed aside the laundry and comic books, and plugged in.... One rule: No shoes on the bed.
Their individual musical tastes are different. Some oldies rock-n-roll, punk, 90's alternative, country, jazz, 80's, irish drinking songs... Wad it up, mic it through a flea market PA, turn up the volume- that's Vitamin Party. Often compared to a mix of Operation Ivy and Pavement, their sound has been described as "high-energy, lo-fi, punk with a bit of an edge" by Maximun Rock-n-Roll.
There is no frontman to Vitamin Party. They all write songs. They all sing. They switch instruments and they put on a fun live show. (It also doesn't hurt that they are the most handsome band in the world.)
Their first album- The Revenge was recorded live with minimal overdubs. In DIY style, the band created all of the artwork and released the CD themselves.
Album #2 "Back on Task" was released on Halloween 2008 at the Stork Club in Oakland. The show featured the band dressed as characters from "The Big Lebowski."
In October 2009 Vitamin Party went on "indefinite hiatus."
"Indefinite" turned out to mean "8 months."
They are releasing their third album, "Radical Agenda, Go!" in July 2010 and playing a few dates on the west coast to support the release.
Stop by and check out a show.
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REVIEWS
"The sweet smell of pop punk with influences from the Mr.T Experience and Green Day" - SF Gate
"It can be an ostentatious claim to have the word "party" right in your name, but fortunately these guys deliver. I seriously cannot stop listening to this CD: think scrappy 90's pop-punk but by a bunch of guys who are more interested in having fun, than sounding like some melodramatic-eyeliner band that passes for punk these days. Bay Area underground was built on stuff like this and they definitely keep the tradition going strong. Upbeat and genuinely well written with solid musicianship to back them up, it's pretty hard not to get at least one of their songs firmly rooted in your brain" Sean Logic (Ashcan Fall 2009 Issue)
"Vitamin Party sounds like if, about 15 years ago, someone had slipped one too many Red Bull & vodkas to Pavement and said, 'OK, now go and try and make a record'" - Ted at BAGeL Radio
"Ah punk rock, I’ve missed you. Vitamin Party is a group that wears its influences proudly on its sleeve. It’s clear these guys have a lot of love for the music and that they’ve spent some time pouring over back issues of Kerrang! ... Sounding punk is easy. Meaning it is different. Vitamin Party succeeds at both. The lyrics are sparse, like a Zen koan. The topics are typical concerns of punks e.g. girls, robots, beer, palindromes, Teddy Roosevelt. The joie de vivre is rather infectious and it’s hard to resist the urge to nod your head and play air drums while the record plays."
Andrew Crowley (March 26, 2009) WIUX FM
Vitamin Party's particular blend of smarts, talent, cockiness and humor, along with their apparent
intolerance for even the slightest falsity of spirit in the creation and performance of their music, make
them highly palatable even to those with a distaste for poppier types of punk.
So CHEERS to Vitamin Party, say we!
Review by f-Labels
"It sounds like these guys may have moved to Berkeley about twenty years too late. they play poppy, lo-fi punk that has a bit of an edge to it. the songs are pretty catchy, mostly mid-tempo tunes. I must say that its about time that a pop-punk band got the song length right (thats about two minutes if you were not sure)" - Pete of Maximum Rock and Roll on "The Revenge"
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